THE OPERA; Planist and Violinist Heard.

The Chicago Opera Company produced another new opera last evening at the Lexington Theatre--an American composition, "Rip Van Winkle," the music by the late Reginald de Koven, the book by Percy MacKaye. Thus, like the Metropolitan opera Company, does it encourage, as it has encouraged in the past, American art. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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